Getting fired by your mom is rock bottom. Therapy is optional. Falling for your replacement boss? Inevitable.
After he's fired from his job -- by his mother, no less -- Bob Funk agrees to quit drinking, see a therapist, and eventually report to a new boss, who might just be the woman of his dreams.
Acting
Grace Zabriskie weaponizes maternal disappointment like no other.
Writing
Dialogue that makes you laugh then check your own coping mechanisms.
Production
Perfectly captures 2009's beige corporate purgatory aesthetic.
Director
Craig Carlisle
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rachael Leigh Cook took this role during her indie phase after She's All That, deliberately choosing messy adult characters over teen fare.
This belongs to a forgotten 2000s subgenre: 'sad men in offices' comedies that Apatow overshadowed but indie studios kept greenlighting.
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